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141I—Sarah Broadie: Plato's Intelligible World?Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78 (1): 65-80. 2004.
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3Nature, change, and agency in Aristotle's Physics: a philosophical studyOxford University Press. 1982.A powerful and appealing explanatory scheme which succeeds on the whole in drawing together a great many seemingly disparate elements in the Physics' into a neat unitary structure.' Canadian Philosophical Reviews.
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45Alternative World-HistoriesPhilosophical Papers 31 (2): 117-143. 2002.Abstract We act so as to make things better than they would have been but for the action; we are horrified by an uncontrollable catastrophe because it made things so much worse than they would have been without it. Such attitudes are reasonable only if it is reasonable to make the associated counterfactual conditional judgments. But making such judgments cannot be reasonable if one holds both (1) that this world is absolutely and uniquely actual (?absolute actualism?), and (2) that everything is…Read more
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3Interpreting Aristotle's DirectionsIn Jyl Gentzler (ed.), Method in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 291--306. 1997.
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Beginnings and Ends of Aristotelian DeliberationIn Jyl Gentzler (ed.), Method in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University Press Uk. 1997.
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108Theological sidelights from Plato's TimaeusAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 82 (1): 1-17. 2008.Plato's account of the making of the world by a supreme divinity has often been felt to foreshadow the natural theology associated with orthodox western religion. This paper examines some significant ways (having more than merely antiquarian interest, it is hoped) in which the Timaeus scheme differs from more familiar orthodoxy.
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33'Actual Instead'Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 113 (1pt1): 1-19. 2013.It is argued that acceptance of determinism sits badly with the way we use counterfactual conditionals when considering gains and losses in light of how things would have been if such-and-such had or had not happened; it is further suggested that one type of indeterminism runs into the same difficulty; also that the difficulty may escape notice through failure to distinguish different uses of counterfactuals.
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19The Ancient GreeksIn Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock & Peter Menzies (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Causation, Oxford University Press. 2009.There are various motives for refining the notion of cause. Aristotle's was an interest in providing the most informative and illuminating method of explaining the central natural phenomena of his universe. A different sort of motive is created by problems of free will and responsibility, of which readers may have been reminded by the reference to indeterminism. The thought that our free and responsible behaviour is caused by factors over which we have no control has often seemed impossible to a…Read more
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Aporia 8In Michel Crubellier & André Laks (eds.), Aristotle's Metaphysics Beta Symposium Aristotelicum, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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3On the Idea of the Summum BonumIn Christopher Gill (ed.), Virtue, norms, and objectivity: issues in ancient and modern ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 41-58. 2005.
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115Nature and Divinity in Plato's TimaeusCambridge University Press. 2011.Plato's Timaeus is one of the most influential and challenging works of ancient philosophy to have come down to us. Sarah Broadie's rich and compelling study proposes new interpretations of major elements of the Timaeus, including the separate Demiurge, the cosmic 'beginning', the 'second mixing', the Receptacle and the Atlantis story. Broadie shows how Plato deploys the mythic themes of the Timaeus to convey fundamental philosophical insights and examines the profoundly differing methods of int…Read more
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Why no Platonistic Ideas of artefacts?In Dominic Scott (ed.), Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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24Finding the Mean, Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy (review)International Studies in Philosophy 25 (3): 145-146. 1993.
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69Another problem of akrasiaInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 2 (2). 1994.No abstract
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2The Good, the Noble and the Theoretical in the Eudemian EthicsIn John Cottingham & Peter Hacker (eds.), Mind, Method, and Morality: Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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1A Contemporary Look at Aristotle's Changing NowIn Ricardo Salles (ed.), Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought: Themes From the Work of Richard Sorabji, Clarendon Press. pp. 81-93. 2005.
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56Nicomachean Ethics: Translation, Introduction, Commentary (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2002.line-by-line notes are invariably informative and helpful, as well thought-provoking.' John M. Cooper, Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton UniversityIn a new English translation by Christopher Rowe, this great classic of moral philosophy is accompanied here by an extended introduction and detailed lin-by-line commentary by Sarah Broadie. Assuming no knowledge of Greek, her scholarly and instructive approach will prove invaluable for students reading the text for the first time. This thorou…Read more
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17I-‘Actual Instead’Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 113 (1pt1): 1-19. 2013.It is argued that acceptance of determinism sits badly with the way we use counterfactual conditionals when considering gains and losses in light of how things would have been if such‐and‐such had or had not happened; it is further suggested that one type of indeterminism runs into the same difficulty; also that the difficulty may escape notice through failure to distinguish different uses of counterfactuals.
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10Chapter SevenProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 3 (1): 229-252. 1987.
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2The Symposia Read at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association at University of Aberdeen July 2008 (edited book)Aristotelian Society. 2008.
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163Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics: Translation, Introduction, Commentary (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2002.In a new English translation by Christopher Rowe, this great classic of moral philosophy is accompanied here by an extended introduction and detailed lin-by-line commentary by Sarah Broadie. Assuming no knowledge of Greek, her scholarly and instructive approach will prove invaluable for students reading the text for the first time. This thorough treatment of Aristotle's text will be an indispensable resource for students, teachers, and scholars alike.
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155Aristotle and Beyond: Essays on Metaphysics and EthicsCambridge University Press. 2007.Written over a period of thirty-five years, these essays explore the topics of causation, time, fate, determinism, natural teleology, different conceptions of the human soul, the idea of the highest good and the human significance of leisure. While most of the essays take as their starting-point some theme in Ancient Greek philosophy, they are meant not as exegesis but as distinctive and independent contributions to live philosophizing. Written with clarity, precision without technicality, and p…Read more
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64On What Would Have Happened Otherwise: A Problem for DeterminismReview of Metaphysics 39 (3). 1986.THIS PAPER is concerned with an ancient rebuttal of determinism, possibly the oldest in our Western tradition. It runs as follows: if whatever happens happens of necessity, there is no point at all in deliberating; but the consequent is intolerable, so the antecedent must be rejected. This objection is put forward by Aristotle, and it reappears in elaborated forms in later works of antiquity. But for the most part, philosophers on both sides of the determinist debate have remained unimpressed by…Read more
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94Noῦs and Nature in De Anima IIIProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 12 (1): 163-176. 1996.
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Symposium: Aristotle's Metaphysics in Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern DivisionJournal of Philosophy 84 (11): 666-681. 1987.
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GC I 4: Distinguishing AlterationIn Frans de Haas & Jaap Mansfeld (eds.), Aristotle's on Generation and Corruption I Book 1: Symposium Aristotelicum, Clarendon Press. 2004.
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8The Possibilities of Being and Not-Being in De caelo 1.11-12In A. C. Bowen & C. Wildberg (eds.), New Perspectives on Aristotle’s de Caelo, Brill. pp. 1--29. 2009.
Sarah Broadie
(1941 - 2021)
St Andrews, FIfe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland